A thread on the Diablo III forums has a complaint from a user who claims to have been charged $149.99 for an item in the Real-Money Auction House for Diablo III after bidding on an item they say was posted at $0.00. They offer evidence to support this claim as well indications that the bug they encountered is still occurring. On a semi-related note, this thread has the account from a user claiming to have lost a Battle.net balance of $200.00 after changing the region on their account, while this one is from someone who says they called the FBI to report Blizzard for wire fraud, alleging having never received a $49.99 payment for an item they sold. These threads have attracted a lot of attention from users, but so far have received no official "blue" comments from Blizzard. Thanks Joao and Blend Games.

Mr. Tact wrote on Jul 2, 2012, 10:14:I actually read most of the comments in this topic, but I don't think I'll bother responding to anyone in particular. I did want to simply say that the first time I heard about the RMAH, my very first thought was "what a terrible idea". I never saw anything to change that opinion prior to the release of the game, and I still haven't. My second thought was it was likely bug abuse, scamming, and straight up farming would negatively impact the game. Unfortunately, it looks like those concerns have been realized and more.

When this game was announced I assumed I would be buying and playing it. As more and more information came out, my enthusiasm retreated. Eventually ending in a "maybe some day" approach. I suspect now that day will never come.

People I knew said the same thing about RMAH. I was more hopeful tho since it was never done before. Oh how I was wrong...

Other than that, d3 is a decent game, until you hit inferno at least. I have 140+ hours into my wizard. Also after hitting inferno you realize loot is pretty thin, which isn't so bad I guess, just means more farming, but that feels like work, not a fun game by that point.

The major problem with both AH's is the people. Like many games, say CoD, it's the crowd that brings it down. Cod is decent, but everyone either takes it too seriously, to the point of cheating to win, or they completely don't give a shit and are just there to grief people for their amusement out of sheer boredom. These people have always been around, but in earlier net days, there was a lot fewer of them, and they mostly stuck to CS. Now they seem to be the majority, and admins have either given up trying to run a clean server, or they one of 'them'.